REID P.O.V.
Ever since she had started working at the BAU around 10 years ago JJ had never been at work the day before Halloween. Even when we were on a case she wouldn't show up that day. All attempts to talk to her about it were quickly shot down by JJ and surprisingly Hotch. It was almost 11 now and unsurprisingly JJ still wasn't here and Hotch was pretending not to notice. My chain of thought was broken by Derek calling me to the conference room for a new case.
Hotch P.O.V.
I left Garcia to brief the team on our latest case to call JJ because she needed to be here for this. I felt horrible for doing this, today would be hard enough already, but it couldn't be avoided any longer now that a second girl was gone too. With a deep breath I punched in her number and waited for her to pick up.
"Jareau."
"JJ I need you to come in today," the line fell dead silent.
"Hotch you know I can't, I just can't today."
"He took another baby, same age, same blonde hair and he left the same note, JJ it's not just something you can try to solve alone anymore."
"I'll be there as soon as I can."
9 years, 9 months ago
"Hotch she's gone!"
"What do you mean gone, JJ?"
"Someone took Kelsey, Hotch! I put her to bed and fell asleep on the couch and when I woke up she was just gone. There was a note in her crib saying not to look for her because when we do then he, he'll kill her Aaron!"
"Just wait there I'll be right over."
Current day, Reid's P.O.V.
Garcia started the briefing with pictures of 2 little babies on the screen both with pale blonde hair and eyes that were still a light, clear blue. After a few seconds she started.
"So we have two girls abducted 10 years apart, both three months old and abducted while their parents slept. Hold on because this is where it gets weird. The first girl abducted 10 years ago her file needs high security clearance to access certain details. We have a first and a middle name, Kelsey Anna, but last name is not accessible neither are the names of either parent. Even weirder is that according to the file every year at 1:00 p.m. on her birthday her mother has gotten to video chat with her for exactly one hour, hence these pictures," she hit a button and 9 pictures of the same girl as she grew up fill up the screen. Morgan was the first to break the silence.
"It doesn't look like this is about her; I mean she looks well fed, perfectly healthy and really happy." Out of nowhere came JJ's reply as she entered the conference room.
"It's about the parents, it has to be otherwise the unsub would hurt her mentally if not physically."